As a security integrator, cyber crime presents a “clear and present danger” to your customers. Cyber crime is a HUGE problem that reaches from the K-12 education market to ongoing international negotiations at the United Nations. Rather than viewing cyber security as overly complex, look at the operation of your client’s business and do what you can at the local level to better secure it.
People hear the term “cloud computing” and conclude the underlying rationale is cost savings. I believe it is in fact security. While cost savings is no doubt a critical driver of adoption, I would ask a larger question: “What happens to the global economy and our national defense if the Internet cannot be secured?”
Over the last six weeks, I had strategic discussions and meetings with four separate companies across the security market about establishing a cyber consulting practice. In New York, I met the former police commissioner of three major U.S. cities, now the chairman of the board for a $1.5 billion firm specializing in digital forensic investigations. I also met with a global risk consultancy based in the United Kingdom providing strategic security advice to senior executives across various industries.
The security industry and the nature of crime itself are changing, and rapidly. In the future, chances are you will worry more about someone stealing your money “digitally,” rather than some form of physical theft or traditional robbery.
I enjoyed the recent ISC West show and came away optimistic and somewhat frustrated with our industry’s slow progress in several areas critical to the future of security. Internet Protocol (IP) networking “expertise” and cloud computing knowledge are areas that propel video surveillance and integrated security solutions to the next level.
The security industry and the nature of crime itself is changing, and rapidly. In the future, chances are you will worry more about someone stealing your money “digitally,” rather than some form of physical theft or traditional robbery.
I attended the 2012 ISC West show and came away convinced that while video surveillance has evolved as a centerpiece of our industry, we can do more to secure video from the emerging threat of cyber breaches. Today digital and physical theft is converging. Countermeasures involve video surveillance integrated with security applications, and the opportunity to protect video and data should not be overlooked by integrators and left solely to overburdened IT departments.
Internet Protocol (IP) networking “expertise” and cloud computing knowledge are areas that propel video surveillance and integrated security solutions to the next level. Moving forward, protecting information — and video images — will favor cloud deployments, as cyber security upgrades are automatic and failover and redundancy are best practices.
Andy Grove, former chairman and founder of Intel Corporation, is a technology visionary and referred to a major market disruption as a “strategic inflection point” by calling it a “10x change,” meaning that the magnitude of the change is 10 times that of the changes that the business has been accustomed to.